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After a gap of two years, Rock legend Mark Lanegan, who was with Kurt Cobain at the beginning of the wave of garage rock in the 90s, will be in Brno presenting his new disc Gargoyle. The concert by Mark Lanegan will also include the American musician Joe Cardamone and the Belgian soul singer Lyenn. more
The Leitnerova Club: Open once more
The ceremonial re-opening of the Leitnerova Club will take place tomorrow. The event will include stand-up comedy, concerts and silent disco. Among those performing will be Lucie Ingrová, Jiří Balák, Lukáš Rieger, Acute Dose, DJ Romeo and DJ PDCH. more
The Janáček Brno 2018 Festival publishes its programme: Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen and David Pountney
The 6th year of the international opera and music festival is to take place in the newly reconstructed Janáček Theatre. There will be performances from directors and interpreters such as Ivo van Hove, Robert Carsen, Kornél Mundruczó, Alvis Hermanis, David Pountney, Tomáš Hanus, Tomáš Netopil, Thomas Adès, Simona Houda-Šaturová, the Haas Quartet and many others. more
The premiere of the opera The Wise Woman will be full of percussion instruments
The Chamber Opera of the Music Faculty of the Janáček Academy of Musical Arts is preparing a work by the German composer Carl Orff. The opera production of The Wise Woman (Die Kluge) there will be five percussionists working on more than twenty instruments and two pianists. The premiere will take place in the Divadlo na Orlí. more
The Mezzosoprano Magdalena Kožená sings together with Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers on a new CD with musical tunes by Cole Porter. The album is being issued today by their new label Brnofon. more
Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra: Call for musicians, singers and choirs
It will soon be six year since the death of President Václav Havel. The Sokol Brno I Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with the Theatre Goose on a String will be following up on last year’s event, the Czech Christmas Mass by J. J. Ryba with the subtitle "Hej Václave" (“Hey, Václav”). The orchestra is looking for musicians who want to be part of the event this year. more
News: The Leoš Janáček Archive is now entered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
UNESCO has awarded the city of Brno another title. The Leoš Janáček Archive is now part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. To date five Czech representatives have been entered into the Register. more
On Thursday Brno’s Fléda club will play host to the group Mydy Rabycad, who will be arriving with their new album M.Y.D.Y., an innovative lighting design, sets and costumes. more
News: Winterreise performed by Jan Martiník and David Mareček. Tomorrow on the ČT Art TV channel
Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise will be heard as interpreted by the singer Jan Martiník and the pianist David Mareček. You can watch it tomorrow on the ČT Art TV channel. more
Pavel Šporcl issues a Christmas album. As part of his tour he will also visit Brno
Pavel Šporcl has recorded his first Christmas album with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Sebastian Lang–Lessing. It is called Christmas on the Blue Violin. The guests on the album are the Czech choir Boni pueri and the harpist Jana Boušková. more
On Saturday, 24 August, the Korean radio orchestra KBS Symphony Orchestra with its musical director - Finnish conductor and violinist Pietari Inkinen - came to Brno's Špilberk Festival with an exclusively romantic repertoire. The invitation was also accepted by South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, a graduate of the prestigious Julliard School. more
For a quarter of a century now, the Brno Philharmonic has been organising the Špilberk Festival at the end of August in the courtyard of the castle of the same name. Four open-air musical evenings offer the audience a selection of concerts featuring classical, film and computer music, as well as often jazz and other genres. This makes it a diverse mix of performers and repertoires with an often pleasant, summery, laid-back ambience. This year's big and rapdily sold-out attraction was the Wednesday evening of 21 August, full of melodies from the James Bond films, performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, headed by world-renowned conductor, composer and arranger Steven Mercurio. During the concert, the audience also got to enjoy singers Sara Milfajtová, Vendula Příhodová and David Kraus. more
As part of its European tour, the Taiwanese Taipei Philharmonic Chamber Choir (TPCC), under the direction of artistic director and choirmaster Dr. YuChung Johnny Ku, took the city up on its invitation and visited Brno. The concert was held on Monday, 13th August in the hall of the newly renovated Passage Hotel. more
The final concert of this year's season of the Brno Philharmonic was devoted to works by Antonín Dvořák and Jean Sibelius at the Janáček Theatre. On Thursday, 20 June, Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt, who had not appeared before a Brno audience since January last year, took the lead of the Philharmonic. In the first half of the programme, the orchestra was accompanied by violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky. more
In the spirit of the idea that Brno and folklore belong together, the Folklore Ensemble Happening of the Year took place on Thursday 6 June. The event was organised by the Brno UNESCO City of Music Office in cooperation with the Brno Dances and Sings association. The event thus became part of a long-term project that set out to map the amateur music scene in Brno, and not only folk music. Last year Brno City of Music reached out to choirs in a similar way, and in the future will host garage bands and more. This just goes to prove the diversity of Brno's music scene, not only as regards professional ensembles, but also enthusiastic amateurs for whom music is an inseparable part of their lives. more
